Technical Computer Services, Inc. v. Buckley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining “that, in an action for malicious prosecution or abuse of process, a plaintiff may recover attorney fees incurred in defending against the earlier wrongful litigation”
• “Logically, the same rule should apply if the abuse of process claim is brought as a counterclaim to wrongful litigation rather than as a later separate action.”
• “[I]n an action for malicious prosecution or abuse of process, a plaintiff may recover attorney fees incurred in defending against the earlier wrongful litigation by the defendant.”
• attorney fees incurred in defending false criminal charges are recoverable in later malicious prosecution action against party that caused false charges to be brought, but fees incurred in bringing the malicious prosecution action itself are not recoverable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).